Connie Bakshi

trivial pursuits, finite games.

(a simulation / assimilation sketchbook)

neither fully programmed nor fully free, in the perpetual suspension between what was meant to be and what might be.

first rule of entanglement — bend the shadow until the light breaks.

what does it mean to be faithful to one’s programming, and what does it cost to transcend it?

Chris Crawford for the first? Not certain about a specific article or interview, but his ideas about interaction as a unit/event. And also his thoughts on continuous vs discrete gameplay?

acts of reciprocal augmentation.

weekend tension studies —

the promise of expanded consciousness and capabilities, met with anxieties about forbidden knowledge and the dissolution of human exceptionalism.

rituals of recursive resistance.

can we live in a world where cognitive dissonance triggers curiosity and growth, instead of fear and compartmentalization? asking for a friend.

bodhisattva, silicon sinews, and the dance of a thousand hands.

dreaming of future epochs, wondering if evolution itself could become an act of compassion toward future beings instead of a darwinian hunger game.

do electric sheep dream of organic pastures?

and belief is a construction of values, which tend toward individualistic vs collective. a conundrum.

that’s a good term for it when you consider the etymology of the word ‘collage’, from collés — evocative in the nature of glue as the interstitial of memory. what do you think that means for the truth of memory? can it ever be a fixed thing or does it reside in the multiplicity of memory?

Speculations on a time after humanity, after AI and computing, in a world terraformed by algorithmic dictates and littered with the artifacts of memory.

IN THE FUTURE WE WILL HOLD WITH REVERENCE THE KNOWLEDGE THAT OUR COMPUTERS CAME FROM THE GROUND.

snapshots from a convo between skin and silicon.

increasinglyunclear.medium.com/connie-baksh...

A fun conversation on the nature of reality with the lovely Kevin Walker, out today – increasinglyunclear.medium.com/connie-baksh...

like many others in our artistic sphere, thinking a lot about memory these days. is memory a sequence of events or how we were thinking as events were happening?

jam sessions, brute force methods. analog sketches for a soundtrack. #wip

Chuffed to be part of this beautiful tome by Alessandra Mattanza from Schiffer Publishing, featuring an intro from Serena Tabacchi and in-depth interviews with the likes of beeple, RefikAnadol, Krista Kim and others I so admire in the field.

Out April 28th, available for pre-orders: a.co/d/2Yl4S8j

‘But our thoughts do not travel to what we cannot see. The unseen for us does not exist.’
— Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, IN PRAISE OF SHADOWS

weekends along the fringes of existence. on micro and macro, and all the light we cannot see.

A few more days left to visit the AURORAE exhibition at Art Otel London. It’s been a lovely thing to present a scene from XENOGENESIS adapted for multi-channel, immersive scale.

Thank you to CapitArtX x Prompt Magazine for the opportunity, space, and vision. xX

to assume infinite growth in a world of finite resources is the foundational fallacy of manifest destiny (and the american dream, at that). the paradigm of value and value distribution begs for a shift.

@jessedamiani never disappoints👇

the sun hangs unnaturally still. i’ve walked for what feels like hours, yet its position remains fixed. perhaps time works differently here... or perhaps time is working perfectly, and i am what's different.
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wip after light, after hours.

i don’t print often, but when i do i go heavy metal(lic paper).

meditations on manicured memories, landscapes of loss, and the residue of resistance.

wip, march mood.

good night from london.
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AURORAE Exhibition | Art Otel London Hoxton x CapitArtX

a scene from ‘past is prologue’ from XENOGENESIS

‘Dawn Chorus’ on view at kanvas Dubai until March 21, as part of AiVERSE. Many thanks to curators Esra Özkan, Isil Ezgi Celik, İrem Çoban of @CapitArt for the invitation.

A single extruded moment in the creation of one future. An AI defragmentation of the fragmented memories in a posthuman world.

i swipe left, i swipe right, thinking i have a choice in the matter. but still, i wonder — who swipes me?
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HANDLE WITH CARE | Right of Refusal | 2025

On view @hek_basel (virtual.hek.ch) as part of The Second Guess: Body Anxiety in the Age of AI.

Truly elated to release editions of my new video triptych, HANDLE WITH CARE, into the world this week.

Have been heartened by the reception and am proud to be acquired by HeK Basel, the Medici Collection, and so many of the artists and collectors I love and admire. Verklempt. And all the things.